Analysis of 75th Anniversary of Battle of Britain



With the rising of the sun we shall take to the sky
And there with "the few" we shall be remembered
We shall spit fire and a hurricane shall follow in our wake
Together we shall soar where no bird has flown
Through the slits of golden light that cut through the mornings clouds
Into the vastness of bright blue space that is free and empty
We shall dance as though we are carried freely by angels
Forever turning and spinning leaving a trail of pure white behind us
And then as if by magic we shall disappear from view
To a place where only God can see us play upon the wind above the clouds
Where we and "the few" once flew together
Before returning to our earthly shackles once more
Till such time as we are again called upon to spit fire and make hurricanes


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 758
Words 148
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 47
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 610
Words per stanza (avg) 147
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Submitted on December 12, 2015

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Mark Nadin (The Deal Poet)

Mark Nadin has lived in Deal since his birth in 1962. Deal is a coastal town in the South East Corner of Englan on the Kent Coast Mark spent a lot of his childhood on the beach and on a farm where his love with nature began Deal was the home of the Roysl Marines School of Music and as a child he wanted to join the military but due to chronic asthma this never happened His love of the coast and the military come through in many of his poems that he has written since his teenage years, however he only started keeping the in 2011 after his marriage broke up He used his poetry as a way of expressing himself and also as a means of therapy more…

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